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Join us for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses: the importance of collecting and preserving our stories in times of political upheaval, and archival strategies for navigating the present conjuncture.

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Among the questions this conference asks is, how is desire formed by the systems, memories, and material conditions through which value is produced, circulated, and lived? How does desire shape our understanding of value itself?

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Hosted by an NYC-CJH Fellow: Join for a hands-on mask-making workshop where we will transform recyclables into wearable art. Participants will create expressive masks while exploring how waste connects to climate justice, environmental justice, and waste equity.

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WEDNESDAY!

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🎧🎙️ 10 days left to apply — open to GC Students only @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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A critical bridge between frontline communities of color across NYC and CUNY. The goal is to move beyond theoretical discussion and into the active “retooling” of our classrooms to support a Just Transition for New York City.

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Hosted by an NYC-CJH Fellow: Join for a hands-on mask-making workshop where we will transform recyclables into wearable art. Participants will create expressive masks while exploring how waste connects to climate justice, environmental justice, and waste equity.

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OPEN TO CURRENT GC STUDENTS ONLY

This workshop series introduces Graduate Center students to feminist oral history, transnational archival practices, and public-facing scholarship methods.

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Join the Poetic Research Entanglements for a spring afternoon of poetry talks and workshops, featuring Gauri Awasthi, poet of the forthcoming book Mother Wound, and Lina Bergamini, Director of Marketing & Community Engagement at Nightboat Books. This event foregrounds the parallel process of poiesis, publication, and circulation of poetry books in our current moment. Lunch will be served.

Join the Poetic Research Entanglements for a spring afternoon of poetry talks and workshops, featuring Gauri Awasthi, poet of the forthcoming book Mother Wound, and Lina Bergamini, Director of Marketing & Community Engagement at Nightboat Books. This event foregrounds the parallel process of poiesis, publication, and circulation of poetry books in our current moment. Lunch will be served.

In this interactive event, we hope to indulge in Gauri’s talk on the process of writing Mother Wound and Lina’s workshop on taking your manuscript from draft to published. Bring your imaginations and curiosities!

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What can studying these histories of repression teach us about today’s campus crackdowns?

What role does collecting and preserving our stories play in times of political upheaval, and what archival strategies might we use to navigate the present crisis?

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Red Scare at CUNY: A Research Guide | Manifold @CUNY The Red Scare at CUNY is a comprehensive guide to archives documenting anti-communist political repression of faculty, staff, and students at CUNY, primarily from the 1930s-1960s. Organized by reposit...

This event is also celebrating the release of a new online resource: The Red Scare at CUNY is a comprehensive guide to archives documenting anti-communist political repression of faculty, staff, and students at CUNY, primarily from the 1930s-1960s.

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We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent - Center for the Humanities Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. This panel discussion features Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis, ...

✨ May 4, 6-8pm ✨

We are thrilled to co-sponsor this timely conversation on the new McCarthyism on campus, with Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis + archivists/student journalists from Brooklyn College and WKCR 89.9FM. Join us @ CUNY Grad Center!

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FRIDAY!

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WEDNESDAY!

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TOMORROW!

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Looking forward to your event! ^^^
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Join us for a panel discussion on digital colonialism: the use of digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another sovereign country or people. Science, technology, and infrastructure have always been crucial to colonial conquest, but today the United States controls a vast digital empire. Digital colonialism includes everything from transoceanic fiber-optic cables to cloud server farms, to social media platforms and AI-based surveillance services.

Tue, Apr 21, 2026
6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to the public. Please register to attend.

Join us for a panel discussion on digital colonialism: the use of digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another sovereign country or people. Science, technology, and infrastructure have always been crucial to colonial conquest, but today the United States controls a vast digital empire. Digital colonialism includes everything from transoceanic fiber-optic cables to cloud server farms, to social media platforms and AI-based surveillance services. Tue, Apr 21, 2026 6:00 PM–8:00 PM Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to the public. Please register to attend.

Digital colonialism includes everything from social media platforms to AI surveillance services. This panel discussion will focus in particular on the role of digital technologies in so-called environmental conservation strategies like carbon offsetting.

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A conference exploring the intersections of LGBTQ & class, w/ keynotes by queer labor organizer Anne Balay, queer-caste theorist Anjali Arondekar, and genderqueer, disabled, class writer Eli Clare.

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Two weeks!

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Next week!

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COSMOSQUAW visits the La Jolla reservation hosted by the Shameman, 2000/2026 Digital inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist.

COSMOSQUAW visits the La Jolla reservation hosted by the Shameman, 2000/2026 Digital inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist.

Kent Monkman, The Emergence of a Legend (2006)

Kent Monkman, The Emergence of a Legend (2006)

Cara Romero, TV Indians, 2017. Inkjet print. Image courtesy of the artist.

Cara Romero, TV Indians, 2017. Inkjet print. Image courtesy of the artist.

Join us for an afternoon of talks and performances in conjunction with exhibition Sovereign Acts III at The James Gallery. The exhibition explores the relationship between nineteenth century performing “Indians” and contemporary performance art. 4/15, 4pm

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Thanks ^^^
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A conference exploring the intersections of LGBTQ & class, w/ keynotes by queer labor organizer Anne Balay, queer-caste theorist Anjali Arondekar, and genderqueer, disabled, class writer Eli Clare.

Sliding scale registration!
centerforthehumanities.org/event/queer-...

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SUNDAY!

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TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing - Center for the Humanities Toni Cade Bambara. Photo courtesy of the filmmakers.

Next, we have the video from the post-screening Q&A after TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, chronicling the incendiary life of one of CUNY’s most beloved teachers.

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2026 Lost & Found Fellows Showcase: New Poetics and Archival Research Projects - Center for the Humanities Watch the video recording and photographs from the event in the slideshow below. Watch Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Graduate Center doctoral student fellows Ju Ly Ban, Cortnie Be...

We are excited to share photos and video from some of our latest events. First, the @cunypoetics.bsky.social Fellows Showcase, where they were able to share their in-progress archival projects.

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Join the Center for the Study of Women and Society in our screening of Chavela (2017), a documentary about the pioneering ranchera singer, Chavela Vargas.

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Join @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ERI/PS2 fellows Ian G. Williams, Seon Britton & Jaclyn Reyes at Open Data Week 2026 • Tues, Mar 24 at 6pm

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